Web Browsers And Packages

Release: 2008-05-11
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The Web Content Object Model (WCOM)

A new baseline and level of practical content support of webpages, websites and web applications for Internet-enabled UserAgents such as web browsers.

Core Level:

HTTP and HTTPS 1.1;
UTF-8 or higher Character Set;
Low Level Storage: Cookies;
HTML 5 'Subset' for UserAgents;
JPEG Images;
PNG Images with native Alpha Transparency support;
Some Visual, Interactive and Paged CSS 2.1 including:
- Proper !important keyword;
- Full transparent value;
- Attribute selectors;
- Child selector;
- Full :hover selector;
- :first-child selector;
- Proper overflow property;
- min-width, max-width, min-height, max-height properties;
ECMAScript Edition 3 with JavaScript 1.4 or higher or similar;
General DOM 1 HTML and some DOM 5 HTML including
- getElementById;
- innerHTML;
General Event Object Model;
The style object.

Such as : Trident V (5) and higher based (Internet Explorer 7 and higher),
Mozilla Gecko 1.7 and higher based (Mozilla Firefox, Flock, SeaMonkey, Galean, Ephiphany, K-Melean),
Apple Webkit 419 and higher based (Safari 2 and higher, Omniweb 5.5 and higher, iCab 4 and higher, Shira 2.2),
Presto 1 and higher based (Opera 7 and higher),
KHTML 3.3.2 and higher based (Konqueror 3.3.2 and higher.

Layout Level:

Most of Visual and Interactive CSS 2.1 including:
- content (with counters);
- Full List Types;
- CSS Tables;
CSS 3 Begins With, Ends With and Contains Substring Attribute Selectors;
Some form of box-sizing.

Such as: (Possibly Trident VI (6) and higher based (Internet Explorer 8 and higher),)
Mozilla Gecko 1.8 and higher based (Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and higher, Flock, SeaMonkey, Galean, Ephiphany, K-Melean, Camino),
Apple Webkit 525 and higher based (Safari 3.1 and higher),
Presto 3 and higher based (Opera 9 and higher),
KHTML 3.4 and higher based (Konqueror 3.4 and higher).